Luyện nghe bài hát Ubaba Akalele

Ubaba akalele (my is not at peace)

Ngahlangana nomfo' izolo
(I met up with yesterday)
Wathi "we-jonathan, angiphathekile kahle
(he said, "jonathan, I am in a bad way)
Ngiphupha ubaba ongasekho inkomo yakhe
(I of my late father pointing at his ox)
engitshela ethi "wemfana wami
(and I him telling me -- "my boy
Uma ngihamba kulomhlaba wemfana
(on the day I pass away and this earth)
Musa ngebokisi (x3)
(do not me in a coffin)
Wemfana
(my boy)
Awungebesa ngesikhumba senkomo emhlophe, wemfana
(you should bury me in the skin of a white ox, my boy)
ngenkomo emhlophe
(you should send me on my journey by means of a white ox)
Inkomo, kababa, wo-ye-ye-ye!
(the ox, the ox of my father....)

Akalele ubaba
(father is not at at home)
Akafuni ibokisi, inkomo
(he does not want a coffin, he an ox)
ubaba ekhaya
(father is not at home)
mfokasibiya wathi "jonathan lalela lana
(sibiya continued saying, "jonathan, here.)
Ngokushona kababa isimanga
(on the day my father died a most unfortunate happened)
Abantu babethi bayamdumisa
(our family thought they would give hima sendoff)
Bamfihla engalifuni
(and buried him in a coffin, knowing he did not want this)
Saxabana thina sodwa (x2)
(we fought among ourselves, we the of the family)
Saxabana ngoba ngathi mina bayasithela
(we because I said they had done something which would bring great
Misfortune)
Benkunzima ngelelolanga sifihla
(it was the day we buried my father)
Benkunzima
(it was that day)

Ubaba akalele ekhaya, ugudla
(father is not at ease at home, his spirit wanders the cattle
Enclosure)
Ibokisi lakhe
(it feels by the coffin)
Ufuna isikhumba yakhe (x2)
(his still wants to be accompanied by his ox)